Category Archives: Navy

At first everything went as planned: the vehicle separated from a B-52 Stratofortress high above a naval air warfare center sea range in California and decoupled from the rocket booster. But 31 seconds into the test, a problem developed with a cruiser control fin and the X-51A Waverider hypersonic vehicle plummeted into the Pacific Ocean, missing its target of […]

Tensions between China and Japan have escalated, following Beijing’s announcement of the creation an air defence zone over a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea. China conducted its first air patrol over the area on the weekend, infuriating its neighbour. Japan says the zone, and the patrols, are unacceptable, and is warning […]

An unmanned US jet has landed aboard an aircraft carrier for the first time. “Salty Dog502”, the US Navy’s X-47B drone, landed on the USS George H W Bush off the coast of Virginia, its first landing on a ship. The bat-wing aircraft has a 3,200km (2,000 mile) range and the ability to carry the […]

The Automatic Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) comprises of port and starboard 30mm cannons controlled by an electro-optical fire control system. Providing the operator with day and night picture, the electro optical device tracks targets and provides positional information to the cannon which adjusts its aim so the rounds fired intercept the target. The operator remains safe at all times remotely connected to the system from within the ship. Firing 200 rounds of 30mm ammunition every minute, at a velocity of over 1000m per second out to ranges of 5km it is used to protect the ship against aircraft and fast attack boat

China concerned over India’s naval prowess, says expert Lora Saalman, a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Programme at the Carnegie Endowment. China, concerned over India’s policy on Indian Ocean, wants to establish posts in countries like Sri Lanka and Seychelles, said Dr. Lora Saalman, an American expert on arms control. Dr. Saalman is an […]

DEVELOPMENT: Both, fulcrum and hornet, are purely carrier based naval fighters. Mig-29K is developed from land based Mig-29M whereas F/A-18E/F is purely a carrier based design from origin. Both are designed around 1980. The rapid and far-sighted modernization program of US NAVY is what keeps Hornet a formidable fighter plane over the sea. Similarly Mig-29K […]

President Barack Obama, chiding Gov. Mitt Romney in response to comments he made on military cuts, said during Monday’s third and final debate that the American military has changed since 1916. “We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them,” Obama said. “We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.” Ironically, […]